According to The Straits Times, a Chinese court in Xinjiang has sentenced a 38-year-old man to 6 years in prison for growing an Islamic beard.

The court expressed that the Muslim man was guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” by growing the illegal facial hair in compliance with Islam, a local paper reported Sunday.

Express Tribune reports that the man’s wife received a sentence of 2 years for wearing a veil that hid her face and a burka.

China has also shown a zero-tolerance policy for Muslim jihadists, executing terrorists en masse as a response to the Turkish-speaking Muslim Uighurs that have refused to assimilate, using violence against innocent civilians as a protest against government.